1-inch CMOS sensor (very slightly bigger than the Super 16mm film format) and Canon’s latest DIGIC DV5 image processor, and can record UHD at 25/30 frames per second to an internal CFast 2.0 card at up to 305Mbps using Canon’s new XF-AVC MXF H.264 codec, or 50/60 fps HD (1920x1080) to an SD card at up to 50Mbps, with pro-standard 4:2:2, but 8-bit, colour sampling. There is also five-second cache recording (pre-record) in HD.

ISO of up to 20,000, and a reasonable 12-stop dynamic range. XC10 offers Canon Log Gamma